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Kyle EASTWOOD Time Pieces
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Time Pieces, double-bass player Kyle Eastwood’s second album for Jazz Village, shows he’s ready to take it to the next level. Joined by Brandon Allen on sax, Quentin Collins on trumpet, Andre McCormack on piano and drummer Ernesto Simpson, Eastwood offers a cool mix of originals and covers that is guaranteed to please. Vocalist Thana Alexa makes her Jazz Village début this month with Ode To Heroes — a remarkable album dedicated to the people who have inspired her personally and musically. Violinist Rachel Podger returns to Vivaldi with L’estro armonico — her third set of Vivaldi concertos for Channel Classics. Hyperion’s star cellist Steven Isserlis plays Russian concertos on his latest release, which pairs works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The Tallis Scholars, better known for early music, present Tintinnabuli — a stunning disc of choral music by Arvo Pärt. The harmonia mundi label’s three priorities lead off with the first volume in a trilogy of Schumann discs pairing the composer’s concertos and piano trios. On this release, Isabelle Faust plays the Violin Concerto. Batting second and third, the Britten Sinfonia performs Dimitry Sitkovetsky’s transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and soprano Sunhae Im makes her solo début with an album of Baroque cantatas. Last but not least, Delphian artists David McGuiness and Concerto Caledonia work their usual magic with their interpretations of the music of Purcell, accompanied by a bevy of folk music luminaries.
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“A clarity of touch and ideas...”
“Powerful and engrossing...”
“A sparkling, brilliant performance.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
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COMING NEXT MONTH Marc-André Hamelin plays Mozart Piano Sonatas Mozart: Piano Sonatas Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion • CDA 68029
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STREET DATE: MARCH 10, 2015
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words Javier Perianes harmonia mundi • HMC 902195
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Czernowin: Shifting Gravity Various Artists Wergo • WER 6726
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Eight of Mozart’s divinely inspired Piano Sonatas here receive performances of mercurial inspiration from consummate virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin. Two Rondos, a Fantasia, and a decidedly quirky Gigue complete a delight of a double album. His four Haydn albums have enthralled — this new Mozart will not disappoint.
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HANDEL Joshua
IMPORT Joshua is one of four so-called ‘victory’ oratorios Handel composed in the late 1740s, which commemorate the defeat of the 1745-46 Jacobite Rebellion. It takes as its subject matter the biblical story of Joshua, who roused his people to a sequence of divinely aided victories. The oratorio remained a favorite with English and continental audiences until well after Handel’s death. This recording, taken from live performances, features a superb cast of soloists supported by the FestspielOrchester Göttingen, conducted from the harpsichord by Laurence Cummings.
“Cummings’s orchestra is alert and assured...”
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Also available Handel: Faramondo Accent • ACC 26402 9 4015023264021) “Cummings and his expert Gottingen Festival Orchestra produce a fine account of this undervalued opera, with varied orchestral subtleties and a sure mastery of Handelian style...” —GRAMOPHONE 3
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Anna Dennis (soprano), Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano), Joachim Duske (tenor), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Tobias Berndt (baritone), NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings Accent • ACC 26403
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Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA 9908 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This deluxe set, which includes two SACDs and a lavish book, gathers the who’s-who of European music of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The composers of this period were deeply affected by the Thirty Year’s War as well as the War of Spanish Succession. The finest music inspired by this turmoil is vividly performed by Jordi Savall and his ensembles. The set ends with a fantastic performance of Handel’s Jubilate Deo. Other featured composers include Lully, Charpentier, Biber, Cabanilles, Jenkins and Blow.
“Savall’s becomes the voice of memory as we now need it.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Also available Balkan - Honey & Blood
Alia Vox • AVSA 9902 (9788494138546)
“Overwhelming, fascinating.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES 4
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Guerre & Paix War & Peace 1614-1714
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Salzburger Liederabende 2000 Songs by Mozart, Previn & Strauss Barbara Bonney (soprano), Franz Bartolomey (cello), André Previn (piano) Belvedere • 10156 IMPORT In cooperation with the Mozarteum Foundation, Belvedere is launching a series of recordings taken from the Salzburg Festival’s Mozart Week, spanning from its beginnings in 1956 until today. The series will also feature concerts from throughout the season, using the most up-to-date recording and production techniques. The inaugural release, recorded in 2000, features soprano Barbar Bonney, accompanied by André Previn at the piano. In addition to songs and arias by Mozart, Bonney sings songs by Richard Strauss and Previn’s Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid, which was written for her.
“The sweet, silvery tone that is this American soprano’s hallmark rarely sounds anything but natural.”
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—THE GUARDIAN
Also available My Name is Barbara Onyx • ONYX 4003 (880040400325) “A satisfying selection of English-language art songs from the first half of the twentieth century.” —OPERA TODAY 5
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque Channel Classics • CCS SA 36515
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD L’estro armonico, the title of Vivaldi’s first published collection of concertos, is commonly translated into English as “harmonic fancy.” However, the word oestrus actually means “heat, stimulus, vehement impulse or frenzy” — a better allusion to the startling passion and energy of these twelve concertos, which are widely considered to be among the most influential Baroque orchestral music ever written. Following on their successful and widely acclaimed releases of Vivaldi’s La Cetra and La Stravaganza, this release by Rachel Podger and her ensemble Brecon Baroque captures all of the vitality and freshness of Vivaldi’s invention: its rhythmic energy, melodic and harmonic intensity, textural sensuousness, technical brilliance and dramatic flair.
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“There’s an unfailing eloquence in all Rachel Podger does...” —BBC MUSIC
Also available Vivaldi: La Stravaganza Channel • CCS SA 19503 (723385195030)
Vivaldi: La Cetra Channel • CCS SA 33412 (723385334125)
“A breath of fresh air in every respect. ” —GRAMOPHONE
“Brilliant, energetic performances.” —GRAMOPHONE 6
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] James Bowman, Olivia Chaney, Jim Moray, Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness Delphian • DCD 34161 IMPORT Delving into the past is never a simple matter for David McGuinness and his indomitable early-music-meets-nu-folk group Concerto Caledonia. But the present venture, even more than most, eludes verbal description. The group returns – in the company of some starry guest names – to the territory of their 2011 Britten tribute Revenge of the Folksingers, now engaging with music by Henry Purcell in a tapestry of arrangements and creative responses that is never less than surprising. Variations by eighteenth-century Scot James Oswald rub shoulders with the Purcell tunes they are based on, while original songs by Olivia Chaney and Ana Silvera and some literally ‘electrifying’ instrumental contributions add to the general air of expectations confounded.
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“Concerto Caledonia’s performances are charmers, one and all.” —FANFARE
Also available Captain Tobias Hume Delphian • DCD 34140 (801918341403) “A delectable anthology — smartly-performed, beautifully recorded and well-annotated.” —THE ARTS DESK 7
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Purcell’s Revenge Sweeter Than Roses?
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LOEFFLER Divertissement Espagnol, La Villanelle du Diable, Une Nuit de Mai, Divertissement in A minor
BRAUNFELS Symphonic Variations on a French Children’s Song, Suite from Der Gläserne Berg, Sinfonia Brevis
HOWELLS Cello Concerto, Puck’s Minuet, Merry Eye CORP Cello Concerto
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Amy Dickson (saxophone), BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner Dutton • CDLX 7313
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Alice Neary (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ronald Corp
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IMPORT These three discs from Dutton Epoch offer a wealth of world première recordings. Accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, violinist Lorraine McAslan and saxophonist Amy Dickson delight in the music of American composer Charles Martin Loeffler. The second volume in Dutton’s survey of Braunfels’s orchestral music spans from his luxuriant early Symphonic Variations on a French Children’s Song to the utterly delightful orchestral suite The Glass Mountain. Cellist Alice Neary is the featured soloist in a disc featuring the première recording of Herbert Howells’s Cello Concerto (now in a performing edition by Jonathan Clinch). In the best Dutton tradition, the album’s coupling is conductor Ronald Corp’s Cello Concerto, a work well worth discovering.
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BRIAN Symphonies Nos.5, 19 & 27, Festal Dance
WIDOR Violin Concerto, Symphony No.1, La Nuit de Walpurgis
ARNOLD Symphony No.7, Philharmonic Concerto, Fantasy on a Theme of John Field
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins Dutton • CDLX 7314
Sergey Levitin (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7315
Peter Donohoe (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7318
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IMPORT Dutton presents three unmissable releases featuring music by Havergal Brian, Charles-Marie Widor and Malcolm Arnold. Martyn Brabbins and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra continue their Havergal Brian series for Dutton with a disc that includes the Symphonies Nos.5, 19 and 27, coupled with the tuneful Festal Dance. On the third volume in Dutton’s series of Widor’s orchestral music, conductor Martin Yates leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and soloist Sergey Levitin in La Nuit de Walpurgis, the delightful Symphony No.1 and Widor’s Violin Concerto. The Arnold recording features Yates conducting three major works written in the mid-1970s when the composer was based in Ireland — the Symphony No.7 the Fantasy on a theme of John Field and the Philharmonic Concerto.
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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios Nos.1 & 2
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IMPORT Despite being a prolific composer in nearly every genre, Saint-Saëns is known today largely for his Organ Symphony, piano concertos and Carnival of the Animals. The two Piano Trios, composed in 1863 and 1892, are among the composer’s finest works. Inspired by the terrain and music of the French Pyrenees, the Piano Trio No.1 is a melodic and cheerful work. The second trio is a more serious and thoughtful work, in which the composer holds fast to traditional form and melody in the wake of contemporary trends. On this recording, Trio Latitude 41 get the right balance between emotion and intellect, with interpretations that are both passionate and virtuosic.
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“A high level of playing...” —THE STRAD
Also available Schubert: Piano Trio Op.100, Notturno Eloquentia • EL 1129 (3760107400291) “ An electrifying recording... a bravura performance that will leave you wanting more, more, more.” —STRINGS 10
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 049 IMPORT To celebrate Arvo Pärt’s 80th birthday, Gimell presents a new recording of some of the Estonian composer’s finest a cappella choral works. This is the first album of contemporary music from The Tallis Scholars since their famous 1984 recording of works by John Tavener. The program here includes several major works including the Magnificat, Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen, Triodion and I Am the True Vine. The album’s title refers to the compositional style Pärt developed in the 1970s and now employs in most of his works. This simple style was influenced by the composer’s mystical experiences with sacred chant. Tintinnabuli works often have a slow and meditative tempo and a minimalist approach to both notation and performance.
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“The Tallis Scholars are hard to beat in virtually anything they decide to record.” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
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Also available Tavener: Ikon of Light Gimell • GIMSE 404 (755138140424) “Other-worldly” —GRAMOPHONE 11
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Tintinnabuli PÄRT Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen, Magnificat, Which Was the Son of..., Nunc dimittis, The Woman with the Alabaster Box, Tribute to Caesar, I Am the True Vine, Triodion
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Sunhae Im (soprano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMC 902189 IMPORT For her first recital disc on harmonia mundi, soprano Sunhae Im has chosen four cantatas dealing with the myth of Orpheus. The Greek poet, who had inspired the birth of modern tragedy at the end of the Quattrocento and opera a century later, was still a powerful stimulus to the composers of the late Baroque. This disc features works by Italian composers Alessandro Scarlatti and Giambattista Pergolesi and French composers Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Im is supported by the ample talents of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
“Sunhae Im is sparkling...”
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Also available Haydn: Cantatas for the Esterházy harmonia mundi • HMX 2961765 (794881892228) “Fiery and energetic…” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 12
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Orfeo[s] Italian & French Cantatas
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado harmonia mundi • HMC 902196 IMPORT With this release, harmonia mundi inaugurates a trilogy of recordings that will eventually comprise the complete concertos and piano trios of Robert Schumann. The instigators of the project, violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Alexander Melnikov and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, champion these compositions with deep conviction and a choice of instruments that restores the delicate transparency and subtlety of their textures. The first volume brings together two late and unjustly neglected works, the Violin Concerto and the Piano Trio No.3. Faust is accompanied in the concerto by the Freiburger Barockorchester led by Pablo HerasCasado.
“Faust has a way of pulling you deeper into each piece as she goes, varying and intensifying her phrasing until abstract figures speak in anxious sentences.”
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—THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Also available Hindemith: Sonatas for... harmonia mundi • HMC 905271 (3149020527122) “A highly rewarding listening experience.” —THE EXAMINER 13
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Schumann Trilogy Vol.1 SCHUMANN Violin Concerto, Piano Trio No.3
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Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross harmonia mundi • HMU 907623 IMPORT Ascension and Pentecost are among the chief feasts of the Christian year. On Ascendit Deus, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and The Dmitri Price Code: A19 Ensemble, both led by Graham Ross, explore (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) the rich imagery of musical settings that span five centuries, including five world première recordings. This is the fourth album by the choir dedicated to the major periods of the Christian church calendar.
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DE LALANDE Leçons de Ténèbres Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé harmonia mundi • HMC 902206
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66876 (034571168760) Deleted November 2014 When Michel-Richard de Lalande died, his fame was Price Code: A19 at its height. Audiences flocked to hear his motets, (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) notably the Leçons de Ténèbres and the Miserere for solo voice, written for the offices of Holy Week. Many composers had already produced settings of these texts in the France of the Sun King, making the Office of Tenebrae a genuine social event. This recording features solo soprano Sophie Karthäuser accompanied by Sébastien Daucé and his Ensemble Correspondances.
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Ascendit Deus Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Gould harmonia mundi • HMU 807633
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On this recording, the Britten Sinfonia’s Associate Leader Thomas Gould directs the ensemble in Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s beautifully realized and heartfelt arrangement for strings of Bach’s great keyboard work, the Goldberg Variations. Sitkovetsky penned the transcription in 1985 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Bach’s birth. It was inspired by Glenn Gould’s remarkable 1981 recording of the work, and the transcription is dedicated to Gould’s memory.
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“High standards and imaginative programing have won Britten Sinfonia the loyalty of audiences...” —EASTERN DAILY PRESS
Also available Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs harmonia mundi • HMU 807566 (093046756666) “This album is an English beauty…” —HI-Fi + 15
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J.S. BACH Goldberg Variations (arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky)
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DOHNÁNYI The Complete Solo Piano Music
IMPORT The penultimate volume in Hyperion’s four-part survey of the complete solo piano music of Ernő Dohnányi focuses on music from the period when Price Code: A19 the composer’s preeminent position was assured. (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) The titles of the largest works here, Ruralia hungarica and the Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, mask in their nationalistic ostentation the skill of a true master of piano composition. Martin Roscoe inhabits the world of Dohnányi’s music like no other, and this new recording is a joy.
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SZYMANSKI Five pieces for string quartet MYKIETYN String Quartet No.2 Royal String Quartet Hyperion • CDA 68085
IMPORT The official titles of the works performed here are not helpful: what they conceal are the most extraordinary sound-worlds from two composers Price Code: A19 at the vanguard of the contemporary Polish music (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) scene, and the magicians of the Royal String Quartet summon from their instruments sounds of collective and individual wonder. This is music to grab the attention of its audience — whether willing or not — and it will leave listeners emphatically having chosen a side of the fence.
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Martin Roscoe (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68033
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Steven Isserlis (cello), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi Hyperion • CDA 68037 IMPORT This thrilling album from Steven Isserlis couples Prokofiev’s groundbreaking Cello Concerto from the 1930s with Shostakovich’s eruptive response to it written for Rostropovich in 1959. These seminal works mark the cello’s coming of age, enveloping its trademark rhapsodic lyricism in a newly visceral passion. Paavo Järvi makes his Hyperion début, conducting an ebullient Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and providing the ideal foil to Isserlis’s impassioned virtuosity.
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“Isserlis’ instrumental mastery is complete, but entirely unobtrusive. His tone is pure, warm, and infinitely variable in color, inflection, and intensity. His phrasing and expressiveness are natural and spontaneous, reflecting the immediacy and integrity of his response to the music; his interpretations seem right and inevitable.” —STRINGS
Also available Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Hyperion • CDA 67981 (034571179810) “A highly intense reading...” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 17
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PROKOFIEV Cello Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1
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LISZT The Complete Songs Vol.3
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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67956
IMPORT The third volume in Hyperion’s Complete Liszt Songs cycle features the highly acclaimed Canadian baritone Gerald Finley. The songs included here Price Code: A19 encompass everything from finely honed miniatures (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) to big-boned epics of tragic import, and these compelling performances elicit from the multi-award-winning pairing of Finley and pianist Julius Drake a sense of paced drama and pathos which is rarely matched.
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BOCCHERINI Stabat Mater D’ASTORGA Stabat Mater
PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 3
The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDH 55287
Nikolai Demidenko (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev Hyperion • CDH 55440
Previously Available as CDA 67108 (034571571089) Deleted November 2013
Previously Available as CDA 66858 (034571168586) Deleted July 2012
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BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.5, Symphony No.5
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Wilhelm Furtwängler’s last recording of Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No.5 with the Price Code: A23 Vienna Philharmonic stands out among his many (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) others, as does his collaboration with pianist Edwin Fischer and the Philharmonia Orchestra on his recording of the Piano Concerto No.5. This is the third volume of Furtwängler reissues in Praga’s Reminiscences series of audiophile SACD remasterings of historic recordings.
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LISZT Scherzo and March, Méphisto-Waltz No.1, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Méphisto-Polka, Nuages gris, Valse oubliée No.2 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Praga • PRD 350081
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD With this release featuring solo piano works by Franz Liszt, Praga’s Sviatoslav Richter Edition (part of Price Code: A23 the Reminiscences series of SACD reissues) reaches (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) volume sixteen. The heart of this program is the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. The ten works in the cycle were brought together between 1845-52, and are quite unusual in Liszt’s output. Inspired by the poetry of Lamartine, these are his only piano works based on religious themes.
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Edwin Fischer (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler Praga • PRD 350074
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Ernő Dohnányi (piano) Testament • SBT2 1505
IMPORT This set featuring composer, pianist and conductor Ernő Dohnányi features previously unpublished solo piano recordings taken from BBC broadcasts of 1936 and a Florida University Recital from 1959. Works heard here include sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert, but the bulk of the music is the pianist’s own. Dohnányi’s style is a cross somewhere between Brahms and Medtner and his own performances are extremely revealing when compared to the scores, as the printed notes seem to be merely a starting point.
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Also available Dohnányi: Variations, Konzertstuck Praga • PRD 250231 (794881822027) “This is a first-rate collection.” —FANFARE 20
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Piano Recital Works by Beethoven, Schubert & Dohnányi
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BRIAN The Tigers
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IMPORT Testament presents the first CD release of Havergal Brian’s opera The Tigers, taken from a 1983 recording made at its BBC Radio 3 studio première performance. Lionel Friend conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, together with a huge cast of some of the finest British soloists of the day. The original performance was made possible by the Havergal Brian Society’s rediscovery of the full score, lost since World War II, and this release is issued with the society’s generous support. The first of Brian’s five operas, The Tigers is set in August 1914, at the beginning of World War I. The main action chronicles the comic misadventures in training of an Army-style ‘ancient regiment’ called The Tigers. Issued with a full libretto, prefaces from original BBC producer Elaine Padmore and conductor Lionel Friend, and copious documentation by Havergal Brian expert Malcolm MacDonald, The Tigers is essential for any 20th-century opera or British music enthusiast.
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Also available Brian: Symphony No.1 Testament • SBT2 1454 (749677145422) “The performance Boult elicited from the hundreds of players and singers remains a superb achievement…” —GRAMOPHONE 21
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Marilyn Hill Smith (soprano), Ann Marie Owens (contralto), John Winfield (tenor), Norman Welsby (baritone), Dennis Wicks (bass), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend Testament • SBT3 1496
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Ensemble Garage, Mariano Chiacchiarini, Ensemble Interface, Leise Dröhnung, Sebastian Schottke (electronics) Wergo • WER 6414 IMPORT This release from Wergo focuses on the young Polish composer Jagoda Szmytka. Szmytka completed her masters in composition and electronic composition Price Code: A23 at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw. (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) Her composition teachers included Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer and Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. With the works on this recording, Szmytka explores the physicality of sound and examines the contact between the bodies of the performer and the instrument. She describes her use of the mixture of raw and sublimated materials as the “sculpting of sound.”
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SILVESTROV Spectrums, Symphony No.2, Cantata, Meditation, Farewell, O World Nelly Lee (soprano), Yuri Olijnik (baritone), Valentin Potapov (cello), Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Igor Blazhkov Wergo • WER 6731 IMPORT This recording is dedicated to early works by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (born 1937). Sylvestrov studied at the Kiev Conservatory, Price Code: A25 where his composition teachers included Borys (Suggested Retail Price: $25.98) Lyatoshynsky. Sylvestrov is perhaps best known for his post-modern musical style; some, if not most, of his works could be considered neoclassical and post-modernist. Using traditional tonal and modal techniques, Sylvestrov creates a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures, qualities that he suggests are otherwise sacrificed in much of contemporary music.
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Bloody Cherries SZMYTKA Electrified Memories of Bloody Cherries, F* for Music, Greetings from a Doppelgänger, and more
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IMPORT Chamber music by German composer Detlev Müller-Siemens is the focus of this release entitled Traces. The four works here were written Price Code: A25 between 2002 and 2009. In them, the serenity and (Suggested Retail Price: $25.98) thoughtfulness of the form contrast with the inner turbulence that comes from a musical language that does not follow any preexisting patterns. Müller-Siemens studied at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, taking composition lessons with Guenter Friedrichs and then continuing with György Ligeti and Olivier Messiaen.
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ANDRE ...auf... SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Sylvian Cambreling Wergo • WER 7322
IMPORT French composer Mark Andre’s ...auf... consists of three independent orchestral pieces. Taken together, they can be heard as a cycle or as a triptych. Though Price Code: A25 they are related, each work begins again the search (Suggested Retail Price: $25.98) for new resonances and means for transitions between sounds. Andre studied composition with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire de Paris. He continued his studies in Stuttgart with André Richard at the SWR Experimentalstudio and with Helmut Lachenmann.
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Traces MÜLLER-SIEMENS Streichtrio, distant traces, ...called dusk, lost traces Mondrian Ensemble Basel Wergo • WER 7310
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MARCH 2015
Brass Bang!
IMPORT File in: Jazz Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu has never shied away from expanding the vocabulary of jazz. Unusual concepts, avant-garde soundscapes and non-standard instrumental combos are challenges he takes on with relish. Brass Bang! is the fruit of Fresu’s live encounters with trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s ensemble Sex Mob, trombonist Gianluca Petrella’s Cosmic Band and Marcus Rojas, who is considered one of the world’s finest tuba players. The resulting album presents a little-big brass band with great soloists and an incredible universe of poetry, humor, sweeping rhythms and above all, fun.
“One of the most seductive trumpet players in jazz...”
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Also available 30 Bonsaï • BON 140401 (3770000294088) “A big success.” —MARLBANK 24
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Steven Bernstein, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Marcus Rojas Bonsaï • BON 150101
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MARCH 2015
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Time Pieces
IMPORT File in: Jazz Time Pieces, the new album by double-bass player Kyle Eastwood, is a musical self-portrait. Organized around the quintet’s often collective compositions, Eastwood offers a couple of covers (Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver) that show his passion for lyrical hard bop, and a fresh interpretation of one of his compositions for the cinema — one of the main focal points of Eastwood’s career. Full of melodic elegance and a sustained sense of groove, Time Pieces puts us right at the heart of a modern, contemporary jazz songbook. Eastwood is joined by Brandon Allen on sax, Quentin Collins on trumpet and flugelhorn, Andre McCormack on piano and drummer Ernesto Simpson.
“A more sophisticated jazz soundscape that brings together a broad range of styles... Eastwood proves he is ever a master...”
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—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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Also available The View From Here Jazz Village • JV 570020 (3149027001724) “Eastwood’s own playing is some of his most persuasive and impressive on record...” —THE BUFFALO NEWS 25
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Kyle Eastwood Jazz Village • JV 570034
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MARCH 2015
Ring Road
IMPORT File in: Jazz This Egyptian artist who now lives in France juggles with the musical genres of his eastern birthplace, which his oud takes to fresh heights, breathing into them the inventiveness of jazz and the energy of rock. Along with his band Heejaz Extended, Mohamed Abozekry blends jazz and world music in seamless way, introducing a sense of groove as well as flamenco and even Latin flavors. Ring Road is a fascinating collection in which his love for John Coltrane and Astor Piazzolla lies just under the surface, as well as his desire to nudge tradition towards horizons suffused with sound and the continual murmuring of the world.
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Mohamed Abozekry, Heejaz Extended Jazz Village • JV 570044
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MARCH 2015
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Ode to Heroes
IMPORT File in: Jazz Winner of the 2011 Jazzon Alpe-Adria International Award and nominee in the category of best jazz composition for Croatia’s 2011 PORIN Awards, Thana Alexa makes her Jazz Village debut with Ode to Heroes — an album of original compositions and vocal arrangements, which bring together elements of jazz, pop and rock.
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“Alexa is a vocal talent whose musical stock is an arrow pointed straight up!” —CRITICAL JAZZ
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Thana Alexa Jazz Village • JV 579002
JAZZ
MARCH 2015
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Ilé
IMPORT File in: Jazz Since he left Cuba in 1993, Omar Sosa has forged a distinctive musical path, fusing an array of world music, hip-hop and electronic elements with his Afro-Cuban roots. Sosa’s newest recording, Ilé, marks a homecoming for the pianist and composer to the Latin Jazz influences of his formative years in late ‘80s and early ‘90s Havana. Ilé means homeland in the Yoruba language of West Africa, and it is to the Latin Jazz roots of his native Cuba that Sosa returns for inspiration on this new studio recording. Ilé offers contemporary interpretations of some of the classic Cuban musical styles the world has come to admire. Listeners will enjoy this album’s mix of ballads and sophisticated mid and up-tempo arrangements.
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“Sosa is an extremely gifted musician, a virtuoso of great standing and very spiritual human being and pianist. And whatever he puts his hands to turns out to be exquisite.” —LATIN JAZZ NETWORK
(Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)
Also available Senses Otá • OTA 1026 (616444102622) “With this album, Sosa reconfirms his status as one of his generation’s most adroit pianists and composers.” —KQED Arts 28
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Omar Sosa, Quarteto AfroCubano Otá • OTA 1027
WORLD
MARCH 2015
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A New Day Carlou D World Village • 450027
IMPORT File in: World / Africa / Senegal Blending the essence of his Baay Fall spiritual philosophy, the outspoken qualities of hip-hop and musical elements of jazz, soul, rap, and acoustic roots, Carlou D has developed his own musical persona. A member of Senegal’s first hip-hop group, Positive Black Soul, he turned to a more traditional sound for his breakthrough album, Muzikr (World Village), a Best World Music Album of 2010 at KEXP Seattle, Rhapsody and more. For his new album, A New Day, recorded between Dakar and Stockholm, Carlou D has gathered a talented team around him, including fellow rising African stars Ester Rada and Berita, along with Eagle-Eye Cherry who appears on the single “Soldier.” A New Day takes his philosophy and talent a step forward towards international acclaim.
“There’s an all-pervading spirituality about him which radiates its own rarefied beauty.”
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Also available Muzikr World Village • 450013 (794881959327) “An engaging album.” —The OBSERVER 29
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